Alexander Hamilton and the Growth of the New NationProbably no American statesman displayed more constructive imagination than did Alexander Hamilton. Prodigal of ideas, bursting with plans for diversifying the economy, and obsessed by a determination to make the United States a powerful nation under a centralized government, he left an imprint upon this country that time has not effaced. Alexander Hamilton and the Growth of the New Nation is the premier biography of Alexander Hamilton written by one of the foremost scholars of early American history. Hamilton's career was at times contradictory: born, in John Adams's words, the "bastard brat of a Scotch peddler," he rose to high social, political, and military position in the newly born country. He dreaded divisiveness, yet his strateÂgies and actions aggravated political sectionalism. Miller weaves together the complex facets of Hamilton's life to make a vivid, absorbing biography. |
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... asked to be received into the Episcopal Church , receiving the sacrament from the presiding bishop of New York , thus indirectly manifesting an attachment to his Anglican heritage . Miller has great admiration for Hamilton , admitting ...
... asked himself to what end he was laboring ; but he never ceased to strive to mold the United States in accord with the vision that had been granted him . The supreme irony of Hamilton's achievement is that the methods by which he sought ...
... asked himself , that were con- tinually ranting about liberty and trying to break up the Empire into autonomous petty jurisdictions ? The answer to this question was supplied by the men in whose company he moved after his arrival in the ...
... asked to be allowed to accelerate his college work , he touched the Reverend Dr. Witherspoon , the president of the college , at a sore spot . A recent arrival from Scotland , Witherspoon felt that Americans were too much inclined to ...
... asked of British statesmen was that they conduct the affairs of the Empire in conformity with the will of God . Like most American patriots of his generation , Hamilton believed that he was fully competent to elucidate the intentions of ...
Contents
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The Quarrel with Washington | 62 |
The Union Against Chaos Chapter 5 Congress and the Army | 83 |
Law and the Loyalists | 100 |
A Rage for Liberty | 111 |
Democracy and Banking | 120 |
The Opposition Emerges | 311 |
The Attack upon Hamilton | 322 |
Hamiltons Quarrel with Jefferson and Burr | 343 |
The Union Against Foreign Aggression The Proclamation of Neutrality Chapter 24 The Proclamation of Neutrality | 363 |
The War Clouds Gather | 379 |
The Whisky Rebellion | 396 |
Jays Treaty | 415 |
The Election of 1796 | 435 |
More Power to Congress | 131 |
The Constitutional Convention 1 | 151 |
The Constitutional Convention 2 | 171 |
The Federalist | 184 |
The Rule of Law | 193 |
A More Perfect Union | 206 |
The First Secretary of the Treasury Chapter 15 The First Secretary of the Treasury | 219 |
The Report on Public Credit | 229 |
Speculators vs Patriots | 238 |
The Bank of the United States | 255 |
The Report on Manufactures | 278 |
The Effort to Transform the American Economy | 296 |
The Mission to France | 451 |
Second in Command of the United States Army | 466 |
The War That Refused to Come to a Boil | 479 |
The Effort to Avert Peace | 493 |
The Election of 1800 | 509 |
The Union Above All Chapter 34 A Prophet of Woe | 533 |
Defender of the Freedom of the Press | 544 |
The Duel with Burr | 557 |
Notes | 577 |
Bibliography | 623 |
Index | 641 |